Losing most of my remaining iron spike supply taking down Grendel was the harshest blow. Then a disenchanter beast completely emptied my precious Dagger of Slay Undead. I ended up being a bit reckless and wound up fighting things like undead quasits in a vault. Ouch!

What really hurt was not loitering around on levels (once I hit level 12 or so, earlier levels I tried to hang around for a while on a given dungeon level) and not getting enough equipment slots and resistances filled. Also, my stubborn refusal to alter the autopicker prefs I normally use for ninja (which has the ninja destroying {good} and below [non-ego/artifact items] once he hits 25th level) contributed to some item scarcity.

On the other hand, this is the best I've done with a Hengband ninja. :)